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This is a 5 minute preview talk I did for an event at the Lean Startup Circle SF on April 17th : http://sanfrancisco.leanstartupcircle.com/ .
If you're in B2B and wondering how you can use Design Thinking and Lean Startup to propel your business, then this is the event for you. We'll review the core concepts, a case study, and specific exercises and tools you can apply the minute you walk out the door.
You'll...:
- Learn how to quickly initiate a rapid improvement loop using design thinking, Lean Startup, customer development, and agile.
- See how Alex Cowan learned (the hard way) how to apply these ideas at his startup Leonid Systems.
- Apply these ideas through a series of quick exercises you can use as a starting point for using the template we'll review in the talk.
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2007 went out on my own
2008
profitable,
productized
consulting business
2010 software business
2011 scaling!
2013 keep innovating
4. How do we do this
more efficiently? Are
we implementing best
practices?
How do we improve
service quality? How
do we verify that?
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IDEATION
Help me integrate and
standardize the
infrastructure. And show
my people how to use it.
Creating accounts is
taking a lot of time/
money. And there are a
lot of mistakes.
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IDEATION
SERVICE
STANDARDIZATION
& WORKFLOW
SERVICE
DESIGN
PROCESS
AUDIT,
DESIGN
NETWORK
PRINCIPALS
OF OPERATION
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LEAN-NESS: SERVICE DESIGN PRACTICE
How do we make
the service better?
How do we know?
Did business
performance
improve?
Customer
satisfaction?
Personas, problem
scenarios, stories
paired with revised
product
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LEAN-NESS: LOKI PORTALS
Did customers do
more self-care?
Does anyone else
want to buy it?Why?
Why not?
Web portal
updates are
too hard.
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DESIGN
THINKING
LEAN
STARTUP
CUSTOMER
DEV.
AGILE
direction
personas
user stories
hypothesis (assumptions)
experimental design
roles & team
objectives
working product
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CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
CASE STUDY
PRACTICES AND TOOLS
20
20
20
MIN
MIN
MIN
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ALEX COWAN
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